Garment-hook.



No. 655,856. Patented Aug. I4, |900.l

. I. P. .DO0LITTLE.

GARMENT HOOK.

(Application led Nov. 2.8,"1899.) (No Model.)

Nrrnn ravin P. DooLirTLn, or'ronolrro, CANADA,

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 655,856, dated August 14, 1900.

Application filed November 28, 1899. Serial No. 738,585. (N0 model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, IRvIN P. DooLrrrLn, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Toronto, in the Province of Ontario, Canada, have invented new and useful Improvements in Garment-Hooks, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that class of hooks which are used in connection with eyes for fastening garments and similar articles and which are provided with a guard or retainer for preventing accidental disengagement of the hook-and-eye members.

The object of my invention is the production of a hook of this kind which can be tightly secured to the garment, so as to avoid twisting or displacement of the hook, and which remains reliably interlocked with the eye member of the fastening and at the same time permits the members to be easily and quickly disengaged.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure lis a face View of my improved hook engaged with an eye. Fig. 2 is a plan or edge View of the hook and eye applied to the meeting portions of a garment and showing the members interlocked. Fig. 3 is a similar view showing the eye released from the retaining-guard of the hook preparatory to separating the members. Fig. alis a detachedrear view of the hook. Fig. 5 is an elevation of the hook Viewed from its front end. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the hook.

Like letters of reference refer to like parts in the several figures.

A A represent the meeting portions or edges of a garment.

B is an eye of any ordinary or suitable construction which is secured to the face of one of the garment edges, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3.

C is the hook, which is secured to the back or inner side of the other edge of the garment, so as to face inwardly. The hook comprises, essentially, a double shank composed of substantially-parallel bars or branches d, formed at their rear sides with attachingeyes I) b', a nose or bill c, formed of two thicknesses of wire similar to the shank, a transverse guard or cross-bar d, arranged between the nose and the shank ofA the hook, so as to obstruct the mo uth thereof, and provided at its projecting ends with attaching eyes or bends d d2, and an auxiliary longitudinal bar e, which connects one end of said guard-bar with the rear end `of the adjacent bar d of the shank. The hook is preferably bent up from a single length of wire, which is first doubled between its ends and bent to form the double bill of the hook. One of the wire branches forming the shank of the hook is then bent to form the rear eye b, the other branch is doubled upon itself to form the rear eye b and the connecting-bar e, and the remaining portion of said branch is then bent to form the front coil or eye CZ, the guard-bar d, and the other front eye cl2. The

latter eye thus 4forms one extremity of the l length of wire, and the rear eye h on the same side of the hook as the eye C12 forms the other extremity of the wire. The shank a, the' connecting-bar e, and the rear eyes l) b are arranged in substantially the same plane, while the front eyes d d2 stand in a plane at an angle to that of the shanks and said connecting-bar, as shown in the drawings. The throat or span between the guard-bar CZ and the bill of the hook is somewhat narrower than the thickness of the Wire or other material of which the eye member B is formed, so that the eye mustbe sprung or forced into the hook in order to engage the parts of the fastening.

The hook is fastened to the fabric at both ends of its guard-bar d aswell as at the rear end of its double shank a; but the front por-A tions of its shank and its bill are disconnected from the guard-bar and the connecting-bar e, so that the guard-bar is free to yield or spring away from the bill of the hook in engaging the eye B with the hook or disengaging it therefrom, as shown in Fig. 3. In disconnecting the members of the fastening the-wearer simply seizes the flap or edge of the garment which carries the hook and pulls the same away from the person for unlocking the eye B and at the same time draws the edges of the garment together sufficiently to disengage the released eye from the hook. AAs the transverse guard-bar (Z is stitched at its ends to the outer flap or edge of the garment the outward pull upon said flap causes the cross-bar to be drawn away from the bill of the hook, thereby releasing the eye member from the hook. The connecting-bar e, which carries the guard-bar d, forms a cona nection between this bar and the rear end of the shank of the hook and possesses the necessary resiliency to permit of the above-described unlocking action of the guard-bar.

As my improved hook is fastened to the garment near its front end as Well as at its rear end, it is effectually prevented from twisting or becoming otherwise displaced in engaging and disengaging the hook and eye.

I claim as my inventionl. A hook havingashank provided with attachingeyes, a guard-bar arranged transversely between the shank and the bill of the hook and provided at both ends with eyes or attachments which are adapted to be secured to the fabric, and a resilient bar which connects said guard-bar with the rear portion of the shank of the hook, substantially as set forth.

2. A hook formed of a single length of Wire and comprising a shank and a bill formed of two thicknesses of Wire, one of the branches of the shank being provided at its rear end with an eye formed of one extremity of the Wire, a guard-bar arranged transversely between the shank and the bill of the hook and provided at one end with an eye formed of the other extremity of the Wire, and a connecting-bar arranged substantially parallel with the shank and at the side thereof opposite that at which the last-named eye is a1'- ranged and having its front end connected with the adjacent end of said guard-bar by a coil or eye and its rear end With the adjacent branch of the hook-shank by a bend forming an eye, substantially as set forth.

Witness my hand this 17th day of November, 1899.

IRVIN P. DOOLITTLE. Witnesses:

JNO. J. BONNER, CYEsTA B. HORNBECK. 

